[Mark Gleeson]

Car parking is consistently the biggest problem we hear about.

In simple terms IE are lazy, in more complex terms the place is going to turn into a building site shortly while the station is rebuilt it gets 3 more platforms and the new car park, new access roads and so on. The official plans show that the site is to be used as a construction compound and will be used to store materials for the project

The lands around the station are not owned by IE (not yet), the new car park site is made up of several different chunks of land the largest is 21209 sq meters which IE have been granted compulsory purchase over a few months ago. IE own a isolated 4641 sq meter lump which is surrounded by the lands they CPO'ed that becomes the new access road into the carpark

The current car park is listed as 103 spaces, approved plans for delivery by 2009 show a massive 396 space car park, see attached image. The bridge is also to be replaced with a wider one. There are road access issues as well also being addressed by the station works, in time you should see a brand new secure car park in the meanwhile you have no choice but to wait. It is funded, permission granted and the digging has started

Thing to look at would be to sort out the crap feeder bus service

On the road safety issue your local councillor will be more than happy get there name on some double yellow lines